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From: GS on 16 Apr 2010 14:58 Mayayana formulated the question : >> Have you tried running at 120 dpi or higher? >> > > I guess I could do that, but I prefer not to > get into unnecessary customizing. And I > imagine there'd be the odd program that > ends up having snipped button text and such. <FWIW> I used to get button/label text clipped when my dev machine was 96dpi and apps ran on 120dpi machines. Since I switched to 120dpi on my dev machine I no longer get clipped text, even on 96dpi machines. -- Garry
From: Mike Williams on 16 Apr 2010 14:58 "Karl E. Peterson" <karl(a)exmvps.org> wrote in message news:%23ymvBlY3KHA.5212(a)TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... > Well, when you start going there, I too can say I've been > looking at the 42" jobs. For the living room! Heh, I really > need something I can plug a laptop into, to watch movies > and hulu and so on, on occassion. What really annoys me about all this is the lack of standards, or rather the lack of one sensible standard. There are standards alright, about half a dozen or more of them, and everyone is following a different one, even for their wide screen formats. The aspect ratio of some wide screen PC monitors on sale today is 16 : 10 with other monitors (and many TV sets) being 16 : 9 whilst most movies on DVD and BlueRay have aspects ratios of anything up to 16 : 7 or wider! Mike
From: Mike Williams on 16 Apr 2010 15:13 "Mayayana" <mayayana(a)invalid.nospam> wrote in message news:uj5vM9Y3KHA.4752(a)TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... > > > > Have you tried running at 120 dpi or higher? > > > I guess I could do that, but I prefer not to > get into unnecessary customizing. And I > imagine there'd be the odd program that > ends up having snipped button text and such. Yes there probably will be, but machines that run at 120 dpi or higher, which were at one time quite rare, are becoming more and more common these days as the pixel density of modern displays becomes higher and higher whilst at the same time the increasing average age of computer users means that more and more of them have less than perfect eyesight. So it is becoming more and more important to make sure that your programs work well at such settings as well as at the more standard 96 dpi setting, and switching to 120 dpi for a while can sometimes be very useful, as well as less straining on the old eyes ;-) Mike
From: ralph on 16 Apr 2010 17:06 On Fri, 16 Apr 2010 13:17:14 -0400, GS <GS(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: >Hi Ralph, >You're right! I'm not a gamer. I'm also retired from my own business >where I never had time 'at work' to waste on such things. "waste"????? -ralph
From: ralph on 16 Apr 2010 17:07
On Fri, 16 Apr 2010 19:58:38 +0100, "Mike Williams" <Mike(a)WhiskyAndCoke.com> wrote: >"Karl E. Peterson" <karl(a)exmvps.org> wrote in message >news:%23ymvBlY3KHA.5212(a)TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... > >> Well, when you start going there, I too can say I've been >> looking at the 42" jobs. For the living room! Heh, I really >> need something I can plug a laptop into, to watch movies >> and hulu and so on, on occassion. > >What really annoys me about all this is the lack of standards, or rather the >lack of one sensible standard. There are standards alright, about half a >dozen or more of them, and everyone is following a different one, even for >their wide screen formats. The aspect ratio of some wide screen PC monitors >on sale today is 16 : 10 with other monitors (and many TV sets) being 16 : 9 >whilst most movies on DVD and BlueRay have aspects ratios of anything up to >16 : 7 or wider! > Not a problem over here - whatever Wal-Mart has on sale is usually what we go with. -ralph <g> |